Chapter 111: The Battle of Leyte Gulf
On the Pacific Theater in 1944,
Admiral Chester William Nimitz suggested attacking Taiwan to block the Japanese on the island of Okinawa. In this way, the Allies could control the sea routes between Japan and South Asia, cutting off Japan from its garrisons in South Asia. General Douglas MacArthur advocated landing in the Philippines, which was occupied by the Revolutionary Army, and it was a humiliation for the United States to cede the Philippines to the Revolutionary Army, and MacArthur had vowed to return to the Philippines when he fled the Philippines in 1942.
Finally Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the final decision, he decided to land in the Philippines. The steps of the Northern Army against the Allies were not very clear.
In 1944, the U.S. Pacific Navy invested 21 aircraft carriers, 21 battleships, 170 destroyers and nearly 2,000 military aircraft, 50 destroyers of the Revolutionary Army, and 60 destroyers reinforced in Kowloon, on October 5, the U.S. Army launched an attack, and the Revolutionary Army transferred several large groups of aircraft, and the destroyers of the Revolutionary Army were sunk by small tonnage, and on October 7, the destroyers of the Revolutionary Army were all destroyed, and the U.S. Army lost 18 battleships, and the U.S. Army lost more than 300 aircraft, and the Revolutionary Army lost 150 planes. The battle continued, on October 8, the 7th Brigade and the 9th Brigade of the Southern Revolutionary Army came to reinforce them, and the 17 brigades stationed near Burma fought fiercely at 7 o'clock against the allied brigade and sea destroyers that landed on the landing, and the aircraft fought fiercely, and at 12 o'clock came to reinforce the 5th Group of destroyers in the South China Sea, and the 11th Group began with the US Army. A fierce battle broke out, several aircraft carriers were injured to varying degrees, 10 destroyers of the Fifth Group were sunk by the US Army, US planes lost 1,900 Air Force in one day and were forced to withdraw from the battle, and the Revolutionary Army lost 500 planes. The three divisions landed by the US army suffered heavy losses, the destroyers lost 130 units, and the US aircraft carriers bombed the revolutionary army with holes everywhere.
The First Submarine Brigade of the Southern Army launched a fierce attack on the US aircraft carrier, there were aircraft bombing in the sky, and there were submarine forces attacking underground, the US aircraft carrier quickly sank to the bottom, the Revolutionary Army Operations Department deciphered an Allied telegram, the telegram showed that the US Army would join forces with the British and French forces to jointly attack this island, Li Ming ordered me to bomb for a period of time, the Revolutionary Army Headquarters received an order from the Nanjing Operations Department to retreat, avoiding the US front, the British and US 140,000 troops were violently blocked by the revolutionary army, and the revolutionary army and the Japanese Allied Army ran out of shells. Light and heavy machine guns ran out of ammunition, bank assets were transported under transport planes, the revolutionary army was evacuated one after another, and the Japanese allied army also began to evacuate.
On October 13, the United States and Britain occupied all of the troops and began the slaughter of exterminating humanity, and those who did not withdraw were slaughtered by the British and American forces, and the British and American forces lost more than 160 destroyers and battleships, and 14 aircraft carriers were lost, and the British and American forces lost more than 60,000 killed and wounded more than 40,000, and there were corpses floating in the river, which was a disaster for the American army.
On October 17 Churchill asked Roosevelt to help the British retake India, Burma, and other territories... On the 18th, the coalition forces began to attack Thailand, the British, French and American coalition forces dispatched hundreds of planes to bomb the revolutionary army station, the revolutionary army hid in the bunker, the seventh brigade of the US Marine Corps, the British Third Army, and the French 11th Army launched an attack, and then were attacked by the dark fire points in the bunker, the coalition forces fell one by one, and the coalition forces of more than 200,000 troops attacked frantically, killing more than 60,000 people in one day, and the battle was fought until October 20, and the two sides became a stalemate, that is, no one attacked.
On October 23, the 2nd Division of the 31st Army of the Police Army, the 5th Division of the Japanese Allied Army, and the Fifth Brigade of the German Allied Army began to launch a deadly attack on the Allied Forces near the Rhine, and the 1st Division of the Independent Automatic Artillery Division of the Central Army then encountered two tank divisions and a tank division of the British Army, and the tank division was soon dealt a devastating blow by the Allied Tank Division of the Revolutionary Army, which was personally commanded by Li Ming, and the large-caliber 350 mm heavy long-range gun fire could reach 3500 meters, and there were radar scans across the woods, 2700 meters Li Ming ordered to fire, a shell several times heavy are the motor hoisted over, artificially assisted firing, a dial down, the British position tank 150 two tanks became scrap metal, the barrel was broken into three sections, flew out and hit the British infantry on the head and killed people alive, the fragments of the tank injured many soldiers during the explosion, hands, eyes, ears were also shocked, seize this opportunity Li Ming ordered to continue firing, the British army was almost blinded by heavy artillery, the sound was very loud, and the sound could not be heard at all, An hour later, three squads of the Wolf Tooth Special Combat Team searched in front with MP5***, the third division of the police car infantry, the second division of the 31st Army, the fifth division of the Japanese Allied Army, and the tank regiment also began to advance, at this time it encountered the British 14th Army, the two sides had a fierce exchange of fire, with the assistance of the Wolf Tooth Special Combat Team, the British army suffered a large number of casualties, and the troops began to rout, and then they were surrounded by the police and the fifth division of the Japanese Allied Army, and the British army died in a large number of battles for 40 minutes, captured more than 40,000 people, and seized a large number of materials, 2 tank divisions and an armored division of the British army, 4 infantry divisions, the tank unit was heavily damaged, more than half of the combat vehicles were destroyed, the British army retreated in a rout, discarded a large number of baggage, supplies, radios, and began to run, Li Ming sent a report to Commander Gao Zhihang to attack Soon the three leading bombers rose into the air, the British tank fighting vehicles were bombed, and the heavy artillery regiments pursuing behind began to exchange fire on the 25th, the British tank fighting vehicles were ambushed and suffered heavy losses, and the remaining more than 20,000 infantry fled, discarding all the baggage, and the heavy artillery was also abandoned, and more than 7,000 people were killed by the revolutionary army during the escape, and more than 10,000 people fled to the woods.
The Thai Revolutionary Army fought fiercely for about 2 months, killing about 80,000 people, and the troops began to retreat to the south of Burma, the British, French, and American forces lost 4,000 planes and more than 300 destroyers, and the Revolutionary Army lost 1,700 aircraft and 150 destroyers. The revolutionary army began to build fortifications, cannons, long-range ** guns also began to equip the southern troops, new jet aircraft also began to equip the troops, on October 24, 1944, the British bombed **, intercepted by the revolutionary army, anti-aircraft machine gun strafing, lost 14 aircraft.
After receiving the report, Li Ming ordered all departments to pay close attention to the renewal of weapons, the formation of ** troops, submarine troops, and rocket artillery units, the task was heavy and the time was short, a large number of weapons began to be taken off the shelves, and the southern army and the northern army eliminated the early weapons and replaced them with new ones, body armor, combat helmets, radars, and telescopes were updated.
In November, the coalition forces occupied a large number of Thai military ports, and after the landing, the coalition forces began to massacre and set firesγγγγγγγ